Babes in Canyon Interview: From Blackout to ‘Echo’
Babes in Canyon’s 2025 debut album 'The New Loud' introduced the Seattle duo of Nathan and Sophia Hamer as artists deeply attuned to atmosphere, harmony and place. The...
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Steven Bernstein Interview: The Trumpeter Rebuilds His Sound on ‘ResoNation Trio’ and ‘Ultra Resonance’
Steven Bernstein’s new double album, 'ResoNation Trio' and 'Ultra Resonance', brings together two very different sides of the same music. One is acoustic, spare and direct. The other...
Toy Factory Project: The Marshall Tucker Band Songbook Breathes Again
Toy Factory Project centres on Paul T. Riddle, the Marshall Tucker Band’s original drummer and co-founder, joined by Marcus King, Oteil Burbridge, Charlie Starr and Josh Shilling to...
The Action: Ottawa’s First Punk Band and the EP That Should Have Been an Album
The Action came out of Ottawa in 1976, which was not exactly London, New York, or Toronto. Ted Axe remembers the city as sleepy, dull and restrictive, a...
Paweł Nawara’s ‘A Record Guide: Rock Behind the Iron Curtain’ Redraws the Map of Czechoslovak Rock
Paweł Nawara’s 'A Record Guide: Rock Behind the Iron Curtain, Volume 1, Czechoslovakia 1964-1979' is, if you like, the sort of book that comes from a great deal...
Jeff Lederer Interview: Bringing Dolphy, Ornette Coleman and Oliver Nelson Into the Present on His Latest Release
Jeff Lederer is a saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and bandleader whose work moves fluidly between jazz, contemporary composition and free improvisation. His new album, 'There’s a Yearnin’', with Mary...
The Dogmatics: Boston Garage Punk, Old Mates and ‘Nowheresville’
The Dogmatics sort of came together in Boston in the early ’80s. “We were just a bunch of guys who wanted to play loud,” they’ve said, recalling that...
Sean Imboden on ‘Uncharted Realms’: “You Can Only See as Far as the Headlights”
“I never want the band to stay in its comfort zone, or in traditional jazz waters,” Sean Imboden says. “I always aspire to break new ground, leaving the...
The Deviants: Original Guitarist Sid Bishop Looks Back at the British Underground
The Deviants were part of the British underground counterculture before anyone had quite worked out what to call that strange, noisy, anti-mainstream thing. They came out of the...
Matthew Stevens on His Self-Titled Album: “This Is What I’m Choosing Now”
Matthew Stevens has spent much of his career inside other people’s music. He has played, toured and recorded with Esperanza Spalding, Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, Harvey Mason, Walter...